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A08838 The palace of pleasure beautified, adorned and well furnished, with pleasaunt histories and excellent nouelles, selected out of diuers good and commendable authors. By William Painter clarke of the ordinaunce and armarie; Palace of pleasure. Vol. 1 Painter, William, 1540?-1594. 1566 (1566) STC 19121; ESTC S110279 360,745 608

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Pallace among whome was the Archebishop of Yorke a man of great reputation singuler learning to whome with the knife in his hande he recyted particularlie the discourse of hys Loue. And after he toke the Countesse by the hand and sayd vnto her Madame the houre is come that for recompence of your honest chastitie and vertue I wyll and consente to take you to Wife if you can finde in your heart The Countesse hearing those wordes began to recolour her bleake and pale face with a vermelion teint and Roseal rudde and accomplished with incredible ioye and contentacion falling downe at his fete sayd vnto him My Lord forasmuch as I neuer loked to be aduaunced to so honorable state as Fortune nowe doth offer for merite of a benefite so hyghe and gret which you present vnto me vouchsauing so much to abase your selfe to the espousal of so pore a Lady your Maiesties pleasure being suche beholde me ready at your commaundement The King taking her vp from the ground commaunded the Bishoppe to pronounce with a hyghe voyce the usuall wordes of Matrimonie Then drawing a riche Diamond from his fynger he gaue it to the Coūtesse and kissing her said Madame you be Quene of Englande and presently I doe giue you thyrty thousande Angelles by the yeare for your reuenue And the Duchie of Lancastre being by confiscation fallen into my handes I giue also vnto you to bestowe vpon your self and your frendes All which inrolled according to the maner the King accomplishing the mariage rewarded the Countesse for the rigorous interestes his so long Loue with such hap and contentation as they may iudge which haue made assay of like pleasure and recouered the fruite of so long pursute And the more magnificently to solemnize the mariage the King assembled al the Nobilitie of Englande and somoned them to be at London the first day of Iuly to beautifie and assiste the Nupcialles and coronation of the Quene Then he sent for the Father and brethren of the Quene whom he embraced one after an other honouring the Earle as his father and his Sonnes as his brethren whereof the Earle wonderfullye reioyced séeing the conceyued hope of his Daughters honor sorted to so happy effecte as well to the perpetuall fame of him and his as to the euerlaseing aduauncement of his house At the appointed day the Quene was brought from her fathers house apparelled with Royall vestures euen to the Pallace and conducted with an infinite number of Lordes and Ladies to the Church where when seruice was done the King was maried againe openly and the same celebrated she was conueyed vp into a publike place and proclaimed Quéene of Englande to the exceding gratulation and ioy incredible of all the Subiectes ¶ An Aduertisement to the Reader AFter these tragicall Nouelles and dolorous Histories of Bandello I haue thought good for recreatiō of the readers to refresh their minds with some pleasaunt deuises and disportes Least their spirites and senses should be appalled and astōned with the sundrie kinds of cruelties remembred in the .vij. of the former Nouelles Which be so straunge and terrible as they be able to affright the stoutest And yet considering that they be very good lessons for auoyding of lyke inconueniences and apt examples for continuation of good and honest lyfe they be the better to be borne with and may with lesse astōnishment be read and marked They that folow be mitigated and swetened with pleasure not altogether so sower as the former be Praying thee most heartely paciently to beare with all thing that shal occurre eyther in these that follow or in the other that be past before Galgano A Gentleman called Galgano long tyme made sute to Madonna Minoccia her husbande Sir Stricca not knowing the same diuers times praysed and commended Galgano by reason whereof in the absence of her husbande she sent for him and yelded her selfe vnto him telling him what wordes her husbande had spoken of him for recōpence whereof he refused to dishonest her ¶ The .xlvij. Nouel IN the citie of Siena in Italie there was a riche yong Gentleman called Galgano borne of noble birth actiue and well trained vp in al kinde of exercise valiant braue stoute and curteous in the maners and orders of all cuntries very skilfull This Galgano loued a Gentlewoman of Siena named Madonna Minoccia the wife of sir Stricca a comely knight and wore in his apparel the colour and deuises of his Lady bearing the same vpon his helmet and armoure in all Iustes Tourneyes and triumphes obseruing noble feastes and banquettes for her sake But for all those costly sumptuous and noble practises this Lady Minoccia in no wise would giue eare vnto his sutes Wherfore Galgano at his wittes end was voyde of aduise what to doe or say seing the great crueltie and rigor raigning in her brest vnto whome he daylie prayed for better successe and fortune than to himselfe There was no feast banquet triumphe or mariage but Galgano was there to doe her humble seruice and that day his minde was not pleased and contented wherin he had not séene her that had his louing heart in full possession very many tymes like a Prince that coueted peace he sente ambassadours vnto her with presentes and messages but she a proude and scornefull Princesse dayned neyther to heare them or receyue them And in this state stode this passionat Louer a long tyme tormented with the exceding hote Loue fealtie that he bare her And many tymes making his reuerent complaints to Loue did say Ah Loue my deare and soueraigne Lorde howe cruell and harde hearted art thou how vumercifully dealest thou with me rather how deafe be thyne eares that canst not recline the same to my nightly complaintes and daylie afflictions How chaunceth it that I doe in this maner consume my ioyfull dayes with pyning plaintes Why doest thou suffer me to Loue and not to be beloued And thus oftentimes remembring the crueltie of Loue his Ladies tiranny he began in maner like a wyght replete with despaire But in fine he determined paciently to abide the good tyme and pleasure of Loue still hoping to finde mercy And daylie gaue himselfe to practise and frequent those thinges that might be acceptable and pleasaunte to his Ladye But she still persisted inexorable It chaunced that sir Stricca and his fayre wyfe for their solace and recreation repaired to one of their houses harde by Siena And vpon a time Galgano passed by the same with a Sparhauke on his fist making as thoughe he went a Hauking but of purpose onely to sée his Lady And as he was going by the house sir Stricca espied him and went forth to méete him and familiarly taking him by the hande prayed him to take parte of his supper with his wyfe and him For which curtesie Galgano gaue him thankes and sayde Sir I doe thanke you for your curteous request but for this tyme I pray you to holde me excused
in this order but their substaunce lefte them by their father was verie muche consumed And their reuenues not able to maintaine their expences began to decrease wherevpon thei were faine to morgage and sell their inheritaunce in suche wise as in the ende thei grewe to extreme pouertie And then penurie did opē their eyes in like sort as before richesse had closed them vp For which cause Lamberto vpon a daie did call his other twoo brethren vnto hym and tolde them of what honour their father was to what value his richesse did amounte and now to what pouertie thei wer come through their disordinate expences giuyng them counsaill so well as he coulde that before miserie did growe any further vpō them by sellyng that whiche was left thei should goe their waie Whiche thei did And without leaue taken of any man or other solempnitie thei departed from Florence and taried in no place before thei were arriued in Englande Where takyng a litle house in the citie of London thei liued with litle expences and began to lende out their money to vsurie Fortune was so fauourable vnto them by that trade that in fewe yeres thei had gained a verie notable some of money whiche made them one after an other to retire againe to Florence with their substaunce where thei redemed a greate parte of their inheritaunce and bought other lande and so gaue themselues to mariage continewing neuerthelesse in England their money at interest Thei sente thither to be their factour a yonge manne their nephewe called Alexandro And thei three dwellyng still at Florence began againe to forget to what miserie their inordinate expences had broughte them before And albeit thei were charged with housholde yet thei spente out of order and without respecte And were of greate credite with euery Marchaunte whose expences the money that Alexandro many tymes did sende home did helpe to supporte for certaine yeres whiche was lente out to diuerse gentlemen and Barons of the countrie vpon their Castelles Manours and other reuenues whereof was receiued an incredible profite In the meane tyme the three brethren spent so largelie that thei borowed money of other fixyng all their hope from Englande It chaunced contrary to the opinion of al men that warres happened betwene the kyng of England and one of his sonnes whiche bredde muche diuision in that Countrie some holdyng of one part and some of an other By meanes whereof all the manours and morgaged landes were taken awaie from Alexandro hauyng nothing whervpō any profite did rise But daily trustyng that peace should be concluded betwene the father and the sonne And that all thynges should be surrendred aswell the principall as the interest he determined not to departe the countrie The three brethren whiche were at Florrence not limityng any order to their disordinate expences grewe daily worsse and worsse But in processe of tyme when all hope was past of their recouery thei lost not onely their credite but the creditors desirous to be paied were faine to sende thē to prison And bicause their inheritance was not sufficient to paie the whole debt thei remained in prison for the rest And their wiues and childrē were dispersed some into the countrie and some hether and thither out of order not knowing how to do but to abide a poore miserable life for euer Alexandro whiche of long tyme taried for a peace in Englande and seing that it would not come to passe considering with hymself that ouer and besides his vaine abode for recouery of his debtes that he was in daunger of his life he purposed to retourne into Italie And as he traueiled by the waie alone and departed from Bruges by fortune he perceiued an Abbot clothed in white in like maner about to take his iourney accompanied with many Monkes and a greate traine hauyng muche cariage and diuers baggages before After whom rode twoo olde knightes the kinsmenne of the kyng with whom Alexandro entred acquaintance by reason of former knowledge and was receiued into their companie Alexandro then ridyng with thē frendly demaunded what Monkes thei were that rode before with so greate a traine and whether thei wente To whom one of the knightes answered that he whiche rode before was a yonge gentle man their kinsman which was newlie chosen Abbot of one of the best Abbaies in Englande And bicause he was verie yonge and not lawfull by the decrees for suche a dignitie thei went with him to Rome to obteine of the holie father a dispensacion for his age and for a cōfirmacion of that dignitie But thei willed hym to disclose the same to no manne And so this newe Abbot riding sometymes before and sometymes after as we see ordinarilie that lordes doe when thei trauell in the countrie It chaunced that the Abbot perceiuyng Alexandro ridyng besides him whiche was a faire yonge manne honest curteous and familier who at the first meting did so merueilouslie delight him as any thing that euer he sawe in his life and callyng hym vnto hym he began familierlie to talke and asked what he was from whence he came and whether he went To whom Alexandro declared liberallie all his state and satisfied his demaūde offryng vnto hym although his power was little all the seruice he was able to dooe The Abbote hearyng his curteous offer and comelie talke placed in good order consideryng more particulerlie the state of his affaires and waiyng with hym self that albeit his traine was small yet neuerthelesse he semed to be a gentleman and then pitiyng his mishappes he recomforted hym familierlie and saied vnto him that he ought daily to liue in good hope For if he were an honeste manne God would aduaunce him again not onelie to that place frō whence Fortune had throwen hym doune but also to greater estimacion praiyng him that sithēs he was goyng into Thuscane whether he likewise went that it would please him to remaine in his compaine Alexandro thanked hym humblie of his comfort and said vnto him that he was redie to imploie hymself where it should please hym to cōmaunde The Abbot thus riding into whose minde newe thoughtes entred vpon the sight of Alexandro It chaūced after many daies iourneis thei arriued at a village that was but meanlie furnished with lodgyng The Abbot desirous to lodge there Alexandro intreated hym to lighte at the Inne of an hoste whiche was familiarly knowen vnto him and caused a chamber to be made redie for hymself in the worste place of the house And the Marshall of the Abbottes lodgynges beyng alredie come to the Toune whiche was a manne verie skilfull in those affaires he lodged all the traine in that village one here an other there so well as he could And by that time the Abbot had supped night was farre spente and euery man repaired to his bedde Alexandro demaūded the host where he should lie To whom the hoste made answere Of a trouthe Maister Alexandro I knowe not for you see that all my